Students, Educators Impacted by PowerSchool Data Breach

California-based education tech giant PowerSchool is notifying students and educators that their personal information was compromised in a December 2024 data breach.

The incident, the company says, was identified on December 28 and only involved its Student Information System (SIS) environments, which were accessed through the PowerSource community-focused customer support portal.

According to PowerSchool, the incident did not cause operational disruption and no other products beyond PowerSchool SIS were affected.

“We have no evidence that other PowerSchool products were affected as a result of this incident or that there is any malware or continued unauthorized activity in the PowerSchool environment,” the company says in an incident notice on its website.

The data breach led to personal information such as names, contact details, dates of birth, medical information, Social Security numbers, and other related information being compromised. According to the company, no credit card or banking information was affected.

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